Furniture, household-type, upholstered on frames of any material, manufacturing · New Jersey

Gar Products

Lakewood, NJ · ~53 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gar Products runs at 174% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Furniture, household-type, upholstered on frames of any material, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Gar Products: 5.8 TCR = 174% of Furniture, household-type, upholstered on frames of any material, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gar Products safety composite

Gar Products scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 33%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

D

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

TCR Δ

−8.0

2020→2024

Gar Products injury rate improved

Gar Products's TCR fell 8.0 from 9.8 in 2020 to 1.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 9.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=9.8 · 2024=1.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 337121 · Lakewood, NJ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 174% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK P33
  • PHOTO Kellex Seating Tupelo
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kellex Seating Tupelo (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gar Products in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Gar Products averages 5.8 TCR (174% of the Furniture, household-type, upholstered on frames of any material, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Gar Products TCR series: 2020=9.8 · 2024=1.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Gar Products falls in its industry

300 Furniture, household-type, uph establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Gar Products (53 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.5 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 05001,0001,5002,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Gar Products
Gar Products (53 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Gar Products has fewer employees than the Furniture, household-type, upholstered o median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 1.7 1.7 1 0 0
2020 9.8 9.8 0 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

337121 · NJ · Lakewood

300 Furniture, household-type, upholstered on frames of any material, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 94 employers in Lakewood, NJ · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Kellex Seating Tupelo 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kolcraft Enterprises Inc 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kellex Seating 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR WHSE 08 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE 4039-03601100-00W001 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE J. Servidone Jr. Equipment & Sales 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE J.D'Annunzio & Sons Inc. 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Franklin Township Public Works 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR NJ-04 4,429 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tender Touch Rehab Services 2,997 FTE
CITY-NEAR Monmouth Medical Center - Southern Campus 622 FTE
CITY-NEAR Renaissane Lakewood LLC 598 FTE
NAT-TCR Macon Beverage Co. 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Round Rock 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Chatsworth Grocery Outlet 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Meadowview ASC, LLC 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Alton Manufacturing Inc 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE McAllen Warehouse 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE WB Industries 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crown Cabinets, LLC 53 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.